03284nam 2200601 a 450 991082442800332120200520144314.01-282-26953-497866122695300-299-20123-62027/heb03164(CKB)1000000000485725(SSID)ssj0000103996(PQKBManifestationID)11113831(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103996(PQKBWorkID)10071100(PQKB)10430682(OCoLC)614573769(MdBmJHUP)muse12171(Au-PeEL)EBL3444760(CaPaEBR)ebr10223897(CaONFJC)MIL226953(MiAaPQ)EBC3444760(dli)HEB03164(MiU)MIU01000000000000006839914(EXLCZ)99100000000048572520040405d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAntecedents to modern Rwanda the Nyiginya Kingdom /Jan Vansina ; translated by the authorMadison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc2004xiii, 354 p. mapsAfrica and the diasporaBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-299-20124-4 0-299-20120-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-311) and index.The oral sources -- 1. Central Rwanda on the eve of the emergence of the kingdom -- The country and its inhabitants -- Fields and herds: subsistence activities -- Kinship and society -- Polities -- 2. The Rwanda of Ndori -- The foundation of the kingdom -- Subsequent military campaigns: conquest or raids? -- Government: the ritual institutions -- Instruments of government: the corporations -- The realm -- 3. Toward the centralization of power -- The seizure of the herds and the land -- The armies -- At the hub: court, king, and elites -- The recasting of royal ideology during Rejugira's reign -- The weight of the state -- 4. Government in the eighteenth century -- Government from Gisanura to Rwaka -- Government under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- Foreign relations under Gisanura and Mazimpaka -- Foreign relations under Rujugira and Ndabarasa -- 5. Social transformations in the nineteenth century -- The transformations of society -- Hutu and Tutsi -- 6. The triumph of the great families and its consequences -- Civil war and the supremacy of the elites -- Struggles for power at Gahindiro's and Rwogera's courts -- Expansion of the kingdom eastward and international trade -- A spontaneous expansion toward Lake Kivu and the land of the volcanoes? -- 7. Nightmares: the age of Rwabugiri (1867-1897) -- Political crisis and wars from 1867-1889 -- Isolation breached and the hatching of a coup d'Etat -- The nightmare of violence used as a political tool -- A balance sheet -- History and the present.Africa and the diaspora.RwandaKings and rulersRwandaHistory967.571/01Vansina Jan143274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824428003321Antecedents to modern Rwanda1767355UNINA